My littlest kindergartners are currently learning several gender words, including "man" and "woman." Today we were learning the word "woman." To help the kids understand, I gave them the example "Stephanie-teacher is a woman." Amy and Cali responded with "Cate-teacher is a woman!" I was so proud of their quick understanding and application of the new term. Then Amy informed me, "Angel-teacher [the female Korean kindergarten teacher] is a man!"
Next I had the little ones do a small project. They had to draw eyes, mouths, and hair on a picture of a man and woman. Amy kept me diverted with a running commentary on her picture: "S-tep-anie, woman is mommy. Mommy has one baby. Is a BIG baby! Baby noisy and mommy and daddy is very sleepy! Baby is very very very very bad baby. Mommy is I'm crazy today!" Jay drew a big red circle around the eye of the woman in his picture and a huge circle on the forehead of the man and informed me, "Mommy eye-ouchie. Daddy pizza-head!"
In a later class, I asked the kids what they do after school. The answers ranged from a list of additional classes that they take (Korean kids do a TON of extra lessons in addition to their normal schooling), to such creative responses as "I hit my brother after school," "I make my mother crazy after school [driving parents crazy seemed to be a popular theme today!]," and "I feed my father after school. [I think she meant that she helps her mother fix dinner.]"
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